Speaking of Music : : Addressing the Sonorous / / ed. by Andrew H. Clark, Keith Chapin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Brandt, Per Aage,; Chapin, Keith,; Clark, Andrew H.,; Gelbart, Matthew,; Hamilton, John T.,; Kramer, Lawrence,; Maas, Sander van,; Moreno, Jairo,; Nancy, Jean-Luc,; Odello, Laura,; Strong, Tracy B.,; Szendy, Peter,; Wurth, Kiene Brillenburg,; Zbikowski, Lawrence M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Chapin, Keith,; Clark, Andrew H.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 11 Illustrations, black and white

People chat about music every day, but they also treat it as a limit, as the boundary of what is sayable. By addressing different perspectives and traditions that form and inform the speaking of music in Western culture—musical, literary, philosophical, semiotic, political—this volume offers a unique snapshot of today’s scholarship on speech about music. The range of considerations and material is wide. Among others, they include the words used to interpret musical works (such as those of Beethoven), the words used to channel musical practices (whether Bach’s, Rousseau’s, or Hispanic political protesters’), and the words used to represent music (whether in a dialogue by Plato, in a story by Balzac, or in an Italian popular song). The contributors consider the ways that music may slide by words, as in the performance of an Akpafu dirge or in Messiaen, and the ways that music may serve as an embodied figure, as in the writings of Diderot or in the sound and body art of Henri Chopin. The book concludes with an essay by Jean-Luc Nancy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Speaking of Music: A View across Disciplines and a Lexicon of Topoi -- Speaking of Music -- Waiting for the Death Knell: Speaking of Music (So to Speak) -- Bach’s Silence, Matthe son’s Words: Professional and Humanist Ways of Speaking of Music -- Making Music Speak -- Rousseau: Music, Language, and Politics -- Listening to Music -- Mi manca la voce: How Balzac Talks Music—or How Music Takes Place—in Massimilla Doni -- Speaking of Music in the Romantic Era: Dynamic and Resistant Aspects of Musical Genre -- Weather Reports: Discourse and Musical Cognition -- Messiaen, Deleuze, and the Birds of Proclamation -- Parole, parole: Tautegory and the Musicology of the (Pop) Song -- Speaking of Microsound: The Bodies of Henri Chopin -- On the Ethics of the Unspeakable -- Récit Recitation Recitative -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index